A group of 20 students from Escuela Cristiana Evangélica Argentina (Ecea), an Evangelical high school in Rosario City, will travel to Malvinas islands for an sports exchange programme next January. It is the first trip of the sort to take place after the 1982 war.
The unique exchange was arranged by the school’s legal representative Marcelo Abdala, through his contacts in the University of Edinburg, where he obtained a postgraduate degree in the 90s, and with the authorities of the Evangelical Church.
“We have been working on this for a long time,” Abdala said to La Capital newspaper. “The invitation arrived a few months ago, through the church. It was very exciting to receive that e-mail,” he added.
The school is currently working to get the necessary permits from the provincial Education ministry for the students, while their parents’ are trying to raise the money needed for the trip with raffles and benefit dinners.
If everything goes as planned, the highschoolers will spend a week in Malvinas in January. They will meet and play football with local teenagers but also visit iconic sites of Puerto Argentino, the island’s capital and only city.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald